After two months of this issue, its drop rate in chests was greatly increased this solved the availability issue, but was definitely a вЂњfeel badвЂќ situation for those who bought in at 100 tix now that Kappa Cannoneer is only worth 5 tix.ДЄgain, if this was an issue that just happened from time to time, it would be bearable. Its price was north of 100 tix for about two months, players who wanted the card physically couldnвЂ™t find it to play in competitive events, and Legacy on MTGO was dubbed вЂњpay to winвЂќ for a prolonged period of time. Kappa Cannoneer was in a tier 1 Legacy deck. HereвЂ™s the price graph for Kappa Cannoneer, a card released only via treasure chests from the NEO Commander set. IвЂ™m not going to give a whole lesson on supply and demand here, but letвЂ™s just say that this historically has been a disaster.

When the cards do make it to MTGO, it is frequently in the form of treasure chest only cards. Mind Bomb (originally released in The Dark and reprinted multiple times), for example, never made it to MTGO. Unfortunately, most of the time, the release of cards to MTGO is often delayed, and sometimes the cards never make it online. That said, if online Legacy and paper Legacy are playing with different card pools, then there is no longer a single Legacy format- there are two. combo decks that involve a huge amount of clicking are very tedious to play online since you cannot demonstrate a loop and easily repeat it hence players shy away from these decks online). Online Magic and paper Magic will never truly be the same (e.g. Since the cards in these products are legal in Legacy and Vintage, it is extremely important that these cards are available on MTGO. IвЂ™ll be referencing this article from yesterday talking about the release of Commander Legends: Battle for BalderвЂ™s Gate. LetвЂ™s move on to supplemental product releases on MTGO. If these problems persist and Vintage вЂњdiesвЂќ on MTGO, that doesnвЂ™t bode well for a format that already has a tiny playerbase. This isnвЂ™t an article on вЂњThe Reserved List,вЂќ so we wonвЂ™t go there todayвЂ¦ MTGO is the home for Vintage for most people given that fact. Vintage is prohibitively expensive to play in paper for most players. Word on the street is that Vintage is unplayable on MTGO this is going to make things easier for the win traders and harder for real players to get actual matches. If you check out replies to these Tweets, youвЂ™ll see content creators and players dropping the format on MTGO due to this problem. HereвЂ™s a Tweet from Andrea Mengucci expressing his frustration with the prevalence of win trading. Online card vendor Goatboats can confirm the creation of 6 win trading accounts with identical, somewhat nonsensical decklists. In this Tweet, he claims the format has become unplayable between 2:00 AM and 10:00 AM Eastern due to the prevalence of win trading during that time. Justin Gennari (aka IamActuallyLvL1) has been trying to get the word out about this issue for quite some time. How many times is the average player going to accept this before they just stop playing the format? If this was an occasional thing, itвЂ™s not a big deal.

If you wait 5 minutes to queue, get matched against a win trader, and then they do not accept your match, you are returned to the queue to wait again.

ItвЂ™s not uncommon to have 5-10 minutes queue times. This seems a little scummy at a glance, but this is potentially format-killing. In the process, they repeatedly deny matches to actual players, causing them to become discouraged and less likely to continue trying to queue. The goal is to quickly generate 5-0 finishes, farming for treasure chests. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, someone creates multiple fake accounts and intentionally only accepts matches from their alternative accounts. Vintage has a pretty big вЂњwin tradingвЂќ problem right now. I create daily gameplay videos for Youtube under the handle ThrabenU, I am one of the cohosts of The Eternal Glory Podcast, and IвЂ™ve been involved in a number of major projects such as The Legacy Premier League. For those of you who donвЂ™t know me, my name is Phil Gallagher. I write this as someone who is DEEPLY entrenched in Magic and cares about these formats greatly, not as someone looking to rant and complain. I recently moved most of my written content to my Patreon in the hopes of maybe making full-time content creation a reality, but it feels like itвЂ™s probably time to write a bit of an open letter talking about some of the issues with Legacy, Vintage, and Magic Online more generally right now.

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